Scummies Ideas, Suggestions and Comments Thread

[zakk]

Better yet still might be to reward them with something thats even more responsive, like a merit based micro badge system.

This sounds great tbh

[zakk]

What if we did a "Newbies of the Month" sort of thing where moderators/IC submit new players who they think excelled in a game and deserve some recognition.

I know if I was a new player to the site and I recieved a message that was like "Congrats! You're a Newbie of the Month! See more here: thread link" it'd be very rewarding to me as a new player and I'd feel more likely to stay.

I could try spearhead something like that if there was interest.

I would also support this endeavour

[zakk]

I like the changes made in January. Seems solid. Judging was a pain for some of those categories.

I also feel like the new Don Corleone will reward riskier scum play (i.e. more exciting scum play).

[zakk]

that sample rubric is pretty bollocks if you actually think about it

davsto brings up some great, great points

[zakk]

i say the site should get together a committee of all the people who have won an award in the past, and let them decide how they want to judge it

winning the award at any point would grant you access to the committee, and you could recuse yourself if you wanted to, or didn't have time, but this would mean the scummies could be judged by people who were intimately familiar with what it took to win, and the pool of committee members would grow over time

i.e. only past paragons would judge paragons
only don corleones would judge don corleone

i really can't see a downside of that, other than "i don't play any more so i'm not really invested in the site" which of course will always happen, but you can still have them on the "committee" to pick the judges for that category, from amongst themselves, and really, they will get to shape the future of the award, and they can be as elitist as they want, because their pool will grow and diversify every year

it'd be surprisingly similar to how the Oscars (or politics in general) work... i think it's definitely worth a go.

and then if people have a complaint about who got chosen as the winner, they could just put their opinion in their pipe and smoke it, because five or ten most cunning manipulators disagree with you, bro

my 2 cents at least

[zakk]

RadiantCowbells needs to be on the SSC tbh

[zakk]

"Talk talk talk talk talk

You can talk from home, oooh, oooh"

-"

Nth

" Harmony

[zakk]

Sauce: was a scummies judge once upon a time

[zakk]

should just open it up to everyone on the site and let them vote on their champions

the oscars are a popularity contest anyway, why not make the scummies a mockery too

#rabblerabblerabble


jk

[zakk]

I think I prefer all to nothing

[zakk]

so it was basically because judges were ~lazy~ (replace with whatever applicable word) and not because the award itself wasn't a good one to have? k

so how you can you reward good town play without putting an insane load on the judges?

nixing the award entirely doesn't sound like the solution...

finding better judges, or defining a clear criteria (i.e. as has been done with Don Corleone) sounds closer to the goal.

[zakk]

finding better judges

Judging is A LOT of work.
Especially when there's little discretion in nominations and there's a good half-dozen or dozen games entered for each category.

And its entirely a volunteer basis.

I was a judge for 2011. And another year.

I know, I have been a judge multiple times too

It's a lot of work, yes, but perhaps instead of just announcing the position of scummies judge and hoping the right people sign up (many were lazy/took a long time this time around, not naming names), we should invite people we find to be excellent at such tedious work who appreciate attention to detail (perhaps look at the people who balance setups, mod crazy games with a lot of swingy roles (which turn out well repeatedly)), etc. Names come to mind such as callforjudgement (he even has "judge" in his name for crying out loud), Varsoon, mhsmith0.

If we invite high-caliber people, perhaps they will realize it's another way they can contribute to the community that they might not have considered before, because they were otherwise occupied doing their other community service.

Anyway... not trying to be argumentative, just explaining my point and showing that there was a thought process behind it.

[zakk]

To be fair, Andries, I think we greatly streamlined things this year.

And yes, this year was

much

better than past years I've judged.

[zakk]

I think I'm sitting on a perfect scum win ratio iirc.

[zakk]

Yea confirmed. No scum/3p losses, ever.

(On this account and at least 2 alts)

[zakk]

Something something AwesomePants something something Friends Forever ...

[zakk]

Same ^

[zakk]

Just ask Reck or UT or Venmar I seem to remember they were all on it

[zakk]

I like this new you, UT

So much more... subdued...

Giggity

[zakk]

I'm new but if you could make profiles customizable with music, images, and such that would be great!!!

And listing your top 8?

you laugh, but i had Tom in my top 8